Hindutva - A Collection of Articles and Ideas

Hindutva (Hinduness) is a word coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 pamphlet entitled "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?". It advocates Hindu nationalism. Members of the movement are called Hindutvavadis. According to a 1995 Supreme Court of India judgement the word Hindutva could be used to mean "the way of life of the Indian people and the Indian culture or ethos".
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Against Hindutva

Hindutva is an ideology for those whose Hinduism has worn off. Hindutva is built on the tenets of re-formed Hinduism of the nineteenth century. (Reformed according to make it well-bounded, monolithic, well-organized, masculine, and capable of sustaining the ideology of an imperial state.)

Pragmatism demands that the culture must adjust to the modern world by giving up its essence to become a part of global mass culture. (Essence it to be given up?)

Maybe, post-Gandhian Hinduism will have to take advantage of the democratic process to help Hindutva to die a slightly unnatural death. (Is there post-Gandhian Hinduism?)

Hinduism Versus Hindutva
The Inevitability Of A Confrontation
Times of India, February 18, 1991.